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| comment on the December 17 Post |
After reading the above comment I decided to research their efforts on this important issue of Information Competency. I found the following page on our library page. Also I searched the class schedule under Library and got the following result
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| Class Schedule Search of Spring 2013 for Library Classes. Notice NOTHING is Offered! |
During the last seven years at Rio Hondo I have had the pleasure of speaking to various Librarians at Rio Hondo and know that they have created excellent programs to support the mission of educating our students. My post from a few days ago was NOT criticizing the Librarians but the system.
We may have a great product to offer our students. However, if it is not presented to students and not supported by the entire system, it is doomed to failure.
There is a need to offer these classes and have all faculty in every discipline to include an online module or an assignment on this topic in their class. How can we accomplish this?
- Build various assignments and modules through collaboration between faculty across various disciplines and our Librarians.
- The school needs to support information competencies by offering such classes and encourage students to sign up for them.
- We need a Librarian to post on this blog, so their latest ideas can come to the forefront of discussions on our campus. (Any Volunteers?)
While I am not (and would never dream of being) the official voice for the Librarians, I am a Rio Librarian. So here goes: we offer library instruction for individual classes (requested by the instructor), an online Lib 101 course, and last semester an on-campus Lib 101 course. We also offer on site library instruction to students who contact us at the reference desk or via email. Of course we would love to do more and have many ideas for expanding our offerings. However, at the moment we are quite limited in this since there are only 4 f.t. with one f.t. opening vacant for 2 years. Like all departments we have faced budget cutbacks that affected our program. Due to budget cutbacks we had to cancel offering drop-in workshops (in the library) and MLA citation assistance in the Writing Lab. At the moment I feel are offerings are bare-bones. However, in the near future we hope to go live with an online library instruction tutorial. But honestly we are stretched to our limits. We have other responsibilities and library instruction (includes information competency) is but one. You can get an idea of some of our responsibilities at: http://library.riohondo.edu/About_The_Library/librarystaff.htm --- Adele
ReplyDeleteI am criticizing the "Bare-Bones" nature and how the Librarians are under valued. I hope that got across.
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